Noisemaker



A. L. GIRARD.

NOISEMAKER. APPLICATION HLED Nov. 22, 1920.

Patented June 20, 1922.

R- m m ATTORNEY.

ANTOINE L. GIRARD, O3? STERLING'JUNCTION, IMASSACHUSETTS.

NOISEMAKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 20, 1922.

Application filed. November 22, 1920. Serial No. 425,74.

VVOrceSter, State of Massachusetts. have in vented new and useful Improvements in Noisemakers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates 'to improvements in toys and more particularly to 'noisema kers.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide a simple, eilicient and inexpensive device of this character designed to produce a plurality of noises.

Another object of my invention is to provide a simple noisemaker which may be operated to produce the noise and sounds of a horn and may also give a rattling noise.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a noisemakerso designed and con.- structed as to assure the production of a horn as well as a rattler, the rattling noise being independent of the blast created by the horn.

Another important object of my invention is to enrich and amplify the intonations produced by the horn to this end assisting in making the sound coming from the horn clear and remarkably distinct.

Another object of my invention is to provide in a device as described a horn operated like the usual horn in combination with a sound box so constructed to allo'w the air currents to expand therein and then to emerge through a series or ports in a consta'nt volume thereby considerably enriching the iu'tonat'ion's produced in this manner.

With the above and other objects in view, my invention consists in PM o arrangement and details of construction disclosed in the drawings and specification, and then more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, wherein, similar reference characters designate similar parts throughout the respective views,

Figure 1 is a longitudinal side elevation of my invention,

Figure 2 is a rear end elevation thereof,

Figure ,3 is a top lan view of my invention,

Figure 4 is a front elevation thereof,

Figure 5 is a longitudinal sectional View taken at right angles to that of Figure 1,

F igure 6 is a cross-section through a sound-box shown in Figure 1,

I Figure 7 is a longitudinal sectional view of an improvement,

Figure 8 is a cross-section through the soundbox shown in Figure 7, and

Figure 8 is a cross-section taken at right angles to Fig. 8.

In the drawings which are merely illustrative of'my invention 1 designates t hetube of a horn, and 2 designates a preferably wooden mouthpiece in the lorm of a tubular body secured with a telescoping fit'upon the end of the tube 1. 3'designates the usual reed of the horn located in the end of the tube 1 where the mouthpiece fits around the same, The inner chamber for the assage of air through the mouthpiece is designated 19. 4: designates the end of the mouthpiece where it projects in advance or the reed.

I Aso'und box also serving as a rattler is designated by the numeral "6 and is in the form preferably of a cylindrical sheet metal body secured edgewise to this tube 1 in such a manner that part of this body or hollow chamber projects in opposite directions from the longitudinal axis of this horn. It will be seen that the body "for sound box is providcd with opposing flat sides. This hollow body is closed by means of the cap having a flange 8 which is secured to the body 6 with a press lit The side of this sound boX or .hollow chamber 6 is iorm'ed with a circular spaced apart series of air releasing or vent ports 10 substantially at a median line thereof. A series of slugs 9 are loosely mounted within the sound box or hollow chamber so that when the entire instrument is agitated freely the slugs may be caused to impinge against the inner walls of the body 6 and thus produce a clear but rattling noise. This adapts thesound box to also act as a rattler. The slugs 10 are inserted into the sound box 1]. before the lid or cap 7 is fastened thereon and remains permanently in position thereon. The slugs are in the form of disks or may be strips or small bars so long as they are free to jump or play around so as to make a rattling sound in the sound box 6.

hen the cap is removed from the sound,

box, then these rattling elements 9 may be introduced into the sound box.

A. modification of my invention is disclosed in Figures 6, 7, 8 and 8. In these figures I design to secure a bell within the sound box or hollow chamber in such a manner that this bell will be spaced away trom the inner walls of this sound box. The bell of the concave-convex type preferably is designated 13 and the space therein is designated 16; a series of: radially extending cleats or brackets '14; are provided secured respectively to the inner wall of this sound box and also to the convex portion of the bell 13, thereby properly positioning in position this bell. There is a ball 15 also contained within this sound box and which loosely falls to and fro in the act of shaking or agitating this device,

It will thus be seen that when the device is held and shaken in a manner to allow the ball 15 to play about the bell will be rung. However by holding the horn so that the sound box is vibrated in different positions the device may be used as a common rattler or as a bell ringer and in addition of course the horn may be sounded, thus producing three differentiated sounds, all pleasant.

By holding the device as shown in position in Figure (reference being made to the form of device shown in Figure 7) and shaking it up and down the ball 15 is almost wholly confined within the bell and. falls in all positions against some portion of the bell surface thus sounding prominently the bell; but by holding this same device shown in position in Figure 7 and shaking it up and down this ball 15 has a chance to engage the bell in one direction and the bottom oi. the sound box and in this capacity serves to the best advantage to act as a rattler.

By blowing the air into and through the born the air may be transmitted into the sound-box so as to escape through the ports formed therein thus sounding the horn in the usual manner. By agitating this instrument a rattling noise may be produced.

Now as the air must escape through and from this sound box 6 to the atmosphere be fore the her (which horn is imper'torate) is sounded to produce its blast, the ports 10 allow for this release oi the air. The sound box being of a greater" depth than the largest diameter of the horn the volume of air blown through the tube 1 into this sound box has a chalice in the latter to expand and thus to am plify the sound, producing a much clearer and richer tone, not obtainable by means of the conventional horn.

Numerous changes may be resorted to in practice without departing in principle from the details of construction herein disclosed.

lWhat I claim and seek protection on is follows 1; The combination. of a horn having a mouthpiece at one end thereof, a cylindrical hollow chamber formed integrally upon said born at its opposite end and having an opening disposed at right angles to the longitudinal axis of said horn, and disk-shaped elements introduced into said chamber so as to hold said elements against displacement. said chamber having provision -lor expelling air blown into said chamber from said horn.

2. In combination, a metallic horn consisting, ot a tube having a noisemalring part at itsinner end, said horn flaring toward its outer end, a cylindrical hollow body formed integrally so to extend diametrically beyond the flaring portion of said horn, and having a large opening at one point, slugs introduced through said large opening into said body and being sufficiently large to be confined. whollyin said hollow body so as not to enter said horn, and a cap held. with a press lit against said hollow body so as to close its large opening.

3. A device as described consisting of a horn provided at one end with a mouthpiece, a chamber containing rattling elements, said chamber being wider than said horn, disks mounted within said chamber being greater in diameter than the depth of said chamber so as to engage the walls of said chamber and each other. said chamber being carriedby said horn at the outer end of said horn.

4. A device as described consisting of a horn having a mouthpiece secured at one end, a cylindrical sound box formed in tegrally at the opposite end of said horn and formed circumlierentially with a series of air ports, one of which communicates with said horn, said box being shaped so as to expand air blown thereinto "from said horn, and slugs contained in said sound box and designed to produce a rattling noise therein. A device as described consisting of a cylindrical hollow body having opposite fiat sides, one of said sides being removable so as to render accessible the interior of said body, a sound producing tube having one end connected so as to communicate with the periphery of said hollow body at a point between its opposite sides, and disks of a diameter greater than thatof said tube and introduced into the interior of said body made accessible by the removable side.

i 6. As a new article of manufacture a tube, a cylindrical hollow body consisting of a CllClllflPjfil'iLIIlG. of a width greater than the diameter of said tube, said body being condisks mounted in said frame, said frame being completely closed, and a sound producing clement located 1n said tube at its remote end from said tube.

7. In a device as described, in oonibina- In witness whereof he has hereunto set his tion, a cylindrical hollow body having an air hand and affixed his sea-l this 13 day of No- 10 receiving opening therein, a noise-making vember, 1920. tube coininunicar /ing with said. hollow body ANTOINE L. GIRARD. and passing an theremto, a bell mounted in said hollow body out of Contact with the Attested: walls thereof, and a tiny ball in said hollow WILLIAM E. BOFF, body confined so as to intonate said bell. EDWARD R. BARKER. 

